Sometimes, you need to be among the postgraduates, we agree. Sometimes you need to feel them alongside you, full of life, full of brilliance.
It's like swimming with dolphins, we agree. It's like snorkelling through a shoal of fish. You feel tiny electrical shocks on your skin. Your hair feels as though it's standing on end. Ah, what brilliance! What fleetness!
Haven't we always found ourselves drawn to postgraduate keenness? They have antennae for the new. What they don't know about the latest ideas! What they don't know about the latest thought from France!
But it is the fact that they feel the horror of the world behind them that makes our desire to be among them essential. They know the horror of Britain. They're fleeing it; that's what drove them into further study. And it drives them through their studies, that horror. It stands behind them like a drover.
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